Question

what is pentose sugar

Answer 1

In the Pentose Sugars, each nucleic acid has a 5-carbon (pentose) sugar as a part of its polymer backbone. For DNA this sugar is deoxyribose, while for RNA it's ribose.

The pentose sugars ribose and deoxyribose are part of the nucleotides that make up the crucial nucleic acids like DNA and RNA .

Answer 2

Answer:

The pentose sugar in DNA is called deoxyribose, and in RNA, the sugar is ribose. The difference between the sugars is the presence of the hydroxyl group on the 2' carbon of the ribose and its absence on the 2' carbon of the deoxyribose.